climate change

Writing on the wall for fossil fuels

Posted by bex — 2 September 2002 at 8:00am - Comments
Choose Positive Energy petition hand in

Choose Positive Energy petition hand in

Greenpeace and The Body Shop presented 1,602,489 signatures to the Earth Summit in the form of an interactive mural calling upon delegates to agree to get clean, reliable, renewable energy into the hands of 2 billion of the world's poorest people by 2010.

Greenpeace and The Body Shop teamed up about a year ago to create the Choose Positive Energy Campaign, launched in January of this year. The demand: that governments vastly expand renewable energy for people across the world - the industrialised governments should expand their renewable energy supplies and all governments should commit to providing small-scale renewable solutions like solar and wind power, small-scale hydro, and biomass, to the world's poorest.

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Electric vehicles

Last edited 27 August 2002 at 8:00am
Islay Wave bus powered by renewable energy

Islay Wave bus powered by renewable energy

Electric vehicles are extremely quiet and produce no tailpipe pollution. Where the electricity is generated from renewable energy, as with the Islay Wavebus, their use creates no carbon emissions at all. Unlike fuel cell vehicles, which are still at the prototype stage, electric vehicles are available as production models from most major car makers. Citroen and Peugot provide electric options on many of their models. Ford recently launched the think! Electric city car, whilst Toyota and Honda have developed new electric/petrol hybrids with the Prius and Insight models. The Toyota Prius is a market leader and had reached global sales of 55,000 by the end of 2001 which doubled the number of electric vehicles in the world. New air pollution legislation in California requires that 15% of all new buses are zero emission. In London green vehicles will be exempt from congestion charging, which will increase demand for electric cars and vans.

Article tagged as: climate change, electric vehicles, islay wave bus, renewable energy, road transport, scotland, transport, wave power

Greenpeace urges Blair to "cut the rhetoric" at WSSD

Last edited 27 August 2002 at 8:00am
27 August, 2002

Greenpeace has asked Tony Blair today (27/08/02) to not bother making a speech at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) unless his address shows world leadership and commits the UK to real action. The summit starts this week in Johannesburg, South Africa. Greenpeace has identified two obvious examples where earlier Blair rhetoric has been discredited by official sloth and offered a checklist of four concrete achievements that the Prime Minister could instead deliver within the next two weeks.

Article tagged as: climate change, forests, press releases, tony blair

The Islay Wave Bus - the world's first!

Posted by bex — 27 August 2002 at 8:00am - Comments
Islay wave bus: the worlds first electric bus to be powered by wave energy

Islay wave bus: the worlds first electric bus to be powered by wave energy

Update: For more on wave power, have a look at our ocean power page.

What is the Islay Wave Bus?
The Islay Wave Bus is the first electric bus in the world to be powered by wave energy. It is also one of only seven electric buses currently operating in the UK. It was formerly used in demonstration projects in Oxford and on Jersey, and has now been refitted with the most up to date electric vehicle technology for community use on Islay. The bus has been upgraded by C&H Bradbury Ltd for Greenpeace, and will be managed and operated by the Islay Development Company (IDC), and used by local community groups.

Article tagged as: climate change, electric vehicles, islay wave bus, renewable energy, road transport, scotland, transport, wave power

Islay Energy Vision - The Mission

Last edited 27 August 2002 at 8:00am
Islay wave bus logo

Islay wave bus logo

Local communities, businesses and individuals working together to establish Islay as a model community for renewable and environmentally positive energy projects.

How will this be achieved?

Islay has already made substantial advances in this direction. In 1994 ETSU, the UK Government's executive agency for energy technologies, carried out a comprehensive study into energy use and resources on Islay. The research was instigated initially by the distilleries, and many of the subsequent recommendations were implemented by communities, government agencies and Scottish Hydro-Electric. The home insulation initiative, for example, installed insulation in over one third of Islay's homes. Scottish Hydro-Electric are also investigating energy storage projects, such as batteries, flywheels and pumped storage.

Article tagged as: climate change, electric vehicles, islay wave bus, renewable energy, road transport, scotland, transport, wave power

Argyll and the Islands Enterprise

Posted by bex — 27 August 2002 at 8:00am - Comments
Islay wave bus logo

Islay wave bus logo

What is Argyll and the Islands Enterprise (AIE)?
Argyll and the Islands Enterprise is the local enterprise company. AIE is part of the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) network which consists of a strategic office based in Inverness and 10 local enterprise companies. HIE is the government economic development agency for northern Scotland, including Argyll.

Article tagged as: AIE, argyll, climate change, renewable energy, scotland, wave power

Labour accused of green hypocrisy over air-con deal

Last edited 22 August 2002 at 8:00am
22 August, 2002

Confidential government documents obtained by Greenpeace and published today reveal that the Home Office is insisting on an air conditioning system for its luxurious new offices that other ministers have lambasted because of the damage it causes to the environment.

The Home Office has told companies bidding to provide the new system that it only wants one using HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) - chemicals that the government says 'should be avoided' because they are 'many times more powerful than carbon dioxide' in causing global warming.

Article tagged as: climate change, government, labour, press releases

Bush, security, and the Rio Earth Summit

Posted by bex — 13 August 2002 at 8:00am - Comments
Earth from Space

Earth from Space

Rémi Parmentier, Political Director, Greenpeace International

You can hardly open a newspaper these days without finding the latest revelations about how the White House and American intelligence failed to interpret signs that the September 11th attack was being prepared. Eleven months after that day, discussions about 'security' seem to have stalled within that very narrow framework.

Article tagged as: climate change, energy security, george bush, international policy

Greenpeace Wind Tour comes to Kings Lynn: Experts say turbines off East Anglia coast could provide quarter of UK electricity

Last edited 29 July 2002 at 8:00am
29 July, 2002

The world's most famous environmental group will descend on Kings Lynn today (Tuesday) as Greenpeace urges locals to back a new plan to build thousands of wind turbines off the coast of East Anglia.

Article tagged as: climate change, press releases, renewable energy, wind power

Esso chief in UK

Posted by bex — 26 July 2002 at 8:00am - Comments

Stop Esso: Passer-bys ask about climate chang

As Chief Executive and Chairman of ExxonMobil and architect of the company's climate policy, Lee Raymond, visits the ExxonMobil HQ in London, the StopEsso team is there to greet him.

 

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